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...mariangoodman.com, 020 7099 0088, from today to August 7 Burning, Cutting, Nailing, Skarstedt Gallery, London Destruction as creation: Yves Klein’s fire abstractions, Lucio Fontana’s metal paintings cut...
...Portraits: John Berger on Artists, by John Berger, edited by Tom Overton, Verso, RRP£25 / RRP$44.95, 544 pages In Titian’s last masterpiece “The Flaying of Marsyas”, a satyr is strung up and tortured to...
...The sale demonstrated a sharp division between the best, highly desirable prizes such as the Modigliani or Lichtenstein’s 1964 “Nurse” which set a new auction high for the artist at $95.3m, and the rest....
...Even if the Biennale is smaller this year – with 87 dealers, as against 95 in 2008 – there is a swathe of excellent “off” shows of the decorative arts in Parisian galleries....
...Prices for modern Italian art have been soaring (Art Market Research reports growth of 95.6 per cent in the last 10 years), with the undisputed star being Lucio Fontana, whose work has shown a jaw-dropping...
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